Minichrome browser

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Minichrome is a minimalistic Desktop web browser that runs on Linux. It was developed for about a year but there hasn't been anything since.

Minichrome is a minimalistic web browser, built especially with tiling window managers in mind. It explicitly does not have a tabbed UI and avoids most UI chrome in favor of keyboard shortcuts.

— Minichrome developers

About Minichrome

Browser URL https://github.com/cprussin/minichrome
Development Status Abandoned
It hasn't been updated in a long time and might be abandoned
Launched 2018
Last Updated 2019
Operating System Linux
Device platform Desktop
Rendering Engine Chromium
Source Code Repository
Minimalistic UI Minichrome aims to have a very simple User Interface.

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